Around 5 years ago (April 2015) Microsoft announced Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), which was renamed to Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection around a year later. By using Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection you can add additional protection to the email filtering service available in Office 365 called Exchange Online Protection (EOP). In this…
Tag: EXO
License requirements for administering Microsoft 365 services
Microsoft licensing is tough and vague but something we must deal with while implementing our solutions. I’m also aware that some of the features I describe on my blog are only available in the most expensive licensing options Microsoft provides, making some of the features I describe not usable for some of my readers. Update…
Microsoft is going to disable basic/legacy authentication for Exchange Online. What does that actually mean and does that impact me?
Update: On September 23, 2021, the Exchange Team announced that effective October 1st, 2022 basic authentication, regardless of usage will be permanently disabled in all tenants. Update: On June 17, 2021, the Exchange Team announced that they are going to turn of basic authentication for tenants not using it. Update: On February 5th, 2021, the…
Stopping automatic email forwarding in your Exchange Online environment in a controlled way
Working as a modern workplace consultant also means that sometimes you have to go deep into Exchange Online options in order to make sure that (sensitive) data of your customer doesn’t leave the organization without the proper security measurements taken. In the Microsoft documentation titled: “Best practices for configuring EOP and Office 365 ATP“, the…
Did you already enable DKIM and DMARC for your Office 365 domains?
When you host your email on the Exchange Online (EXO) platform part of Office365 you can implement several security measures to make sure that email send from your domain gets delivered to the mailbox of the recipient. The most known solution for this is by implementing a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) DNS record. By creating…